This book is filled with surreal elements. A ship with a massive anchor floats in the sky and lands nestled among the houses. The captain disembarks to visit a boy, and the two review a large map. They glance out the window and are startled by a dragon severing the anchor's chain. The captain hurries to board his ship before it floats away, and the boy and city are left with the anchor and chain to commemorate the day's activities. Nautical themes run throughout the pages, along with fantastical fish the size of a lake and flying dragons.
From the White Ravens 2011 catalog: "Stepancic creates a profound maritime atmosphere in a book, full of details and with multiple zooming in and out among the various narrative levels . . ."
Zgodba o Sidru [The Story of the Anchor] by Damijan Stepancic. Slovenia: Mladinska Knjiga, 2010. [9789610111597]
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